Barcon
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When I were a lad, my Mum gave me all her old records. This was one of them.
Barcon
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No mate. He was 9 then.
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it all turned out okay in the end...
my mum was well fit and pulled a rich farmer.
they sent me to a posh school were i learned/learnt to think for myself and decided to desist from using capikal letters.
(after all, they were invented by the church to keep us in our place).
my first memory, aged 5, is of watching the launch of apollo 11 round my nan's house on her tiny b+w telly.
after that i'd always dreamed of being an astronaut but knew i had no hope.
then when i went to a private school it became more of a possibility.
in those days to be an astronaut you first had to be a jet fighter pilot.
imagine that, i thought to myself, flying a fucking jet. wow.
so i asked the headmaster about it and he got some fella with moustaches from the r.a.f. to come and chat with me about it.
i was all for it,
buckled down and studied advanced physics and maths and stuff.
then one day it dawned on me that in order to go to the moon,
as a fighter pilot, i would first have to kill people i didn't know with bombs.
i changed my mind and this is my second desert island disc..
BertTrautmann'sParachute
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Great tune. Didn't know that about Capital Letters.
Bill Walker
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Is the word Moose significant ?
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i'll bore you with the story if you like...
yonks ago, when monks used to sit transcribing manuscripts by hand,
they would carefully do the text parts during the day,
but as the day wore on and they drank more of their home-made mead,
they didn't want to fuck up all the painstaking work they'd done,
so for the remainder of the evening they'd do patterns round the outside of the texts,
this sort of thing
one day,
a monk had no more room for patternage but was still required to work,
so he turned the page and began on a new text,
the first word of which was "god".
he was a bit pissed and thought fuck it,
and did an enormous flowery G instead of a small one.
the very first ever capital letter.
as it happened,
some high-ranking religious types were staying at the monastery
and the next day inspected the work of this monk.
they loved the big g.
it gave god more significance than everyone else.
they instructed the monks to henceforth always use a big g for god.
they passed on the instructions to every other monastery.
soon enough god, by command, was only written with a big g.
he became more important that way.
then the pope said, hold on, i want one too.
i'm the head of the church,
i want a big p from now on,
and so it came to pass.
it didn't take long for kings/rulers/aristocracy and the like to jump on the bandwagon.
they all wanted a big letter to show their authority over the rest of us.
over the centuries it became watered down through the ranks,
until everyone's name ended up with a capital.
and on the subject of capitals,
my third choice is
Barcon
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Turns out that it was eh?
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i'm 59.
Barcon
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F.Y.C
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no way will fine young cannibals be on my list.